Man Ray (1890 - 1977) U.S. painter, photographer, film maker; one of the founders of the new York Dada movement and long associated with Surrealism, though by temperament an eclectic.
In the 1920s and 1930s he worked in Paris, mainly as a photographer: he and Moholy-Nagy explored the principle of space and motion in a type of photography that bypassed the camera and concerned itself with forms produced directly on the photographic printing paper.
  He wrote an autobiography, Self Portrait (1963).